This cardwas sent out to a Croydon voterto let him knowhow, when and whereto vote at a parliamentary election.

Because the cardwas issued by the Croydon Conservative Registration Association,it also urges the voterto vote Conservative, for candidate Ian Malcolm.

Voter V181 must have been a manbecause women were not allowed to vote at all.

D H Lawrence

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D H Lawrence

The writer was in Croydonduring one election day:

"It is election, voting day on Monday.

There are great crowds surging through the streets, there is a searchlight wandering overhead through the darkness.There are suffragettes in thousands and tens of thousands, the place is strident with voices and placards,rustling with leaflets and pamphlets.

I was in the mad grip of the crowd before the suffragettes. If you had felt the surge, the vicious rush of one solid mass of men towards the car where two women were alone!

'If men cannot control themselves', said one of them,'it is time women had some power to control them'"

The Suffragettes

Women who wanted the votehad had enough by 1912.Years of peaceful campaigninghad no effect.They felt that it was time to be militant.They called themselves 'suffragettes'as 'suffrage' means the right to vote.